Sterling to set up hospital at Mundra

The Adani Group-owned Mundra Port and SEZ Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding with Sterling AddLife India Ltd on Monday to set up a secondary care hospital at Mundra.

The secondary care hospital will have a capacity of 50 beds and will be set up by Sterling AddLife at a cost of Rs 18 crore.

The hospital will be expanded to accommodate 100 beds in the future. Among other facilities, the hospital will have a mobile intensive care unit on wheels with qualified medical and paramedical staff, a fully equipped diagnostic laboratory, a radiology department with CT scan machine and pathologist and radiologist. It will have operation theaters as well as a physiotherapy section.

The hospital would become a nodal point for medicare initiatives of Adani Foundation, a charitable trust set up by the Adani family.

The foundation at present is actively engaged in vaccination initiatives.

On commissioning of this hospital, the foundation will explore possibilities of providing prenatal and postnatal and childcare facilities in and around Mundra. A mobile medical van for extending primary health assistance to the villagers in and around Mundra is also being evaluated.

Sanjay Gupta, director, MPSEZ, who signed the agreement, said, "As part of the agreement, Sterling will establish a secondary care hospital at Mundra to take care of the health-related needs of persons residing in and around the SEZ. The hospital will be able to extend emergency medical help by quickly ferrying medical experts or patients as we have an operational aerodrome for landing and take off of executive jets and helicopters."

S Venkatraman, MD, Sterling AddLife India Ltd, said, "This initiative is part of our expansion plan to bring high quality medical care to different parts of Gujarat."